Viacom Backs Out of Web Venture Talks — The new Internet video Website collaboration that has been discussed by media heavy hitters including NBC Universal, News Corp., CBS, and Viacom may be on the rocks after Viacom backed out Tuesday afternoon, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks.

2007 Web Predictions — Written by Richard MacManus, Ebrahim Ezzy, Emre Sokullu, Alex Iskold and Rudy De Waele. Also John Milan wanted to contribute, but unfortunately got caught up in the Seattle storm - so best wishes to John and all our Seattle readers.

Edit Pictures Online in Adobe Photoshop Style with Fauxto — Fauxto is a new player in the heavily crowded market of online photo editors but with a difference. — While the current breed of online image editing program provide tools to enhance or manipulate existing pictures inside the web browser …

Enterprise 2.0 year in review — Though the eponymous title of this blog refers to the application of all aspects of Web 2.0 to the enterprise both large and small, the big story this year has really been about a collaborative subset of Web 2.0, something referred to as Enterprise 2.0.

Time for a new hit — When banner ads started cropping up on the Internet in the mid-'90s, the term "hit" was all the rage. A "hit" (as in, a hit to a server) was the reigning measurement of a site's popularity. Hits attempted to show how many times a page was viewed by a user.

Silicon Valley (Ahem's) Society — So Marc Canter blogged down memory lane yesterday. His story goes like this: Back in the day, Stewart Alsop, Dave Winer and Canter used to hang out to kibbitz about the industry. They decided to form a secret organization called "The Silicon Valley (Ahem's) Society."

Google's true search market share is 70% — Sitting here in Palo Alto, running a web business, it's pretty clear who the winner of the search game is. But every month I have to suffer through reading about Google's supposed 40-something percent market share.

Up Close With Digg Podcasts (& Vote For The Daily SearchCast!) — Neil Patel covered the new podcast feature at Digg in yesterday's story, The New Digg Features Plus, A Submitter's Perspective, but I wanted to take a deeper look at how it works plus maybe entice a few votes for my own podcast, The Daily SearchCast, along the way.

Q&A: Doug Lowenstein, going the distance — The news of Lowenstein's imminent departure from the ESA hit the industry like hammer today. Here, the outgoing president talks about the future ahead for himself, as well as the organization he founded a little over a decade ago.

Suprnova.org: Two Years Since the Shutdown — Exactly two years ago today the legendary BitTorrent site Suprnova.org was taken offline. December 19, 2004, is a milestone in the history of BitTorrent. But how did it all start? Who was behind this legendary site? And what happened after is was taken down?

Nasa and Google reach for the stars — Google is extending its reach to the stars in an agreement with Nasa that will allow it to present web visualisations of the US space agency's data on the universe. — Nasa's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley on Monday announced a "Space Act Agreement" …

FCC's McDowell Stands By Recusal on Merger Vote — UPDATED: Federal Communications Commission (FCC) member Robert McDowell is standing by his recusal from the agency's AT&T-BellSouth merger vote, declining an invitation to break the 2-2 deadlock over the $80 billion deal hung up on network neutrality conditions.